A poll quoted by Seven News on Thursday affirmed that 82% of Australians were against the Gillard flood levy. Leaving aside the issue of the obvious bias in polls generated on the internet, the seemingly unanimous resistance to the levy seems very out of place for many reasons. First of all, it is ...

Business-government relations on trade issues are generally characterized as protectionist lobbying or – less often – lobbying for the liberalization of markets. However, with the evolution of the trading system, negotiations today concern not just market opening, but also the regulatory ...

Active deformation of the sea-floor of the Hellenic trench has been observed using the Cyana SP-3000 submersible. The strain pattern observed on a scale of a few kilometers is similar to the one deduced from an analysis of Seabeam morphological maps on a scale of tens of kilometers. The overall ...

In this short introduction to the life and work of Henri Wallon, we have compared the ideas of Wallon and Piaget. We have discussed their ideas concerning the concept of the child, stages of development, language and education. We can thank Piaget for drawing our attention to the stages and ...